Quotes About Evaluation

He was now firmly of the view that if you wanted to see clearly how one person's character diverged from that of another, the most efficient method was to place both in identical situations.

That's a bit sweeping. Sometimes it takes a while to find out how good or bad something has been.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

I have made up my mind that when I go home form this general conference... there are many, many areas in my life that I can perfect. I have made a mental list of them, and I expect to go to work as soon as we get through.

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble.

Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. We're so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses.

It seems to me that every day Is an audition.

asked. He held on to a shelf, raising and lowering it for her approval. Stepping back to assess,

Whether we do it or not, we'll have to see—but still, just to have an idea, to think it through, work it out, and calculate the alternatives down to the ultimate consequences, that'll be a pleasure I'd never expected to have.

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

standards. I don't think Oliver would have

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt